faceless bureaucrats

Noun

faceless bureaucrat (plural faceless bureaucrats)

1. (derogatory, idiomatic, usually) A stereotypical anonymous, interchangeable and unaccountable government official.
   • The desk-killer operates from within a network of other faceless functionaries radiating in every direction and in which the sense of responsibility could be passed along from faceless bureaucrat to faceless bureaucrat with the greatest of ease, as if it is nothing but an item passed along a...1983, Alan Rosenberg, “The Philosophical Implications of the Holocaust”, in Perspectives on the Holocaust, →ISBN